I am a ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. My advisor is Hairong Qi. Before that, I received my Master degree from College of Control Science and Engineering in Zhejiang University in 2013 and my Bachelor degree from College of Information Science and Engineering in Northeastern University in 2010, respectively. My research interest includes computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning, specifically on sparse coding, dictionary learning, and generative modeling.